Scoop’s Views

There are at least a handful of people arguing the U.S. government needs to “do more” to regulate online pharmacies. Sure, that may be true, but right now, face the facts: most in Congress are older people who are technologically-challenged. In fact, look at legislation about most any aspect of life and you’ll see most of it is at least 10 or more years behind the times. I won’t even touch on the health care crisis in the U.S.

In a story on CNN.com, one woman cried to the cable news channel that she found her husband on their marriage bed, dead, in a pool of vomit. He allegedly died from what the woman — the widow — declares was an accidental overdose of drugs the now-dead husband received from an online pharmacy.

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After giving up on lifesaving efforts, the lifeguards covered each of the girls’ bodies with a beach towel out of respect for the dead. The feet and ankles of both girls poked from under the beach towels, a testament to two young lives snuffed out.

Within feet of the girls’ bodies, folks went about sunbathing and other beach antics as normal, ignoring the two dead bodies.

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Just as the folks in Baytown, Texas about the alleged actions of a 14-year-old student at the town’s Cedar Bayou Junior High who allegedly murdered her newborn infant son immediately after birth, according to police reports. She allegedly killed her newborn son by stuffing toilet paper in her infant son’s throat after he had cried his first — and what would be his last — cries in life, according to police and media reports. After allegedly stuffing her newborn son’s mouth with toilet paper, the unidentified eight-grader then allegedly submerged her baby boy in the toilet, then flushed the toilet, drowning him, according to Baytown Police Lt. Eric Freed, who was quoted in several media outlets as saying.

The girl, who secretly gave birth in the junior high school bathroom, according to police reports, then, after the baby boy was born alive and cried, she allegedly killed her son in cold blood.

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Poor Amy Winehouse. Her daddy says she has emphysema, but her publicist, you know, the well-paid folks who are responsible for creating and maintaining the public image — a performer’s persona — says that the 24-year-old British singer does not have emphysema, but does have only 70 percent lung capacity, as well as nodules and other issues with her lungs. In essence, 30 percent of Amy Winehouse’s lungs are little more than trash.

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Big mouth Ruben Navarrette, Jr., is once again in full-swing with his anti-American banter, this time by saying, (Americans are) so reluctant to accept any responsibility for illegal immigration — a self-inflicted wound that they bring upon themselves by aggressively hiring illegal immigrants — they can’t wait to pin the blame on Mexico and its leaders.

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The Vatican announced today that pollution is among sins — for a new generation — that can lead you to burn in Hell.

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Andy Reid ought resign his position permanently. He hasn’t led the football team to a Super Bowl victory, despite coaching the team to the ultimate game for NFL teams a few times. There were always legitimate excuses why the team lost. Lack of camaraderie. Lack of coordination. Terrell Owens vs. Donovan McNabb. McNabb’s injuries. T.O.’s attitudes. It was always something.

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